Introducing the Decade Draft League (DDL) - Instead of drafting the top 288 out of 4000, lets try the top 288 out of 1000. Damn parity, this should make things alittle more difficult and interesting. Any taker's???

Parity comes from a number of sources, 1) owner parity, 2) player pool parity and 3) artificial parity by division assignment. Owner parity is natural, expected and desirable. Player pool parity will be reduced by reduction of player pool size and content. Reducing the player pool by 75% significantly increases the percentage of total player pool used, combined with the single instance draft this significantly reduces player parity. That leaves artificial parity by division assignment. I've been looking at divisional assignments lately. SIM loads the weakest teams in a division, the strongest teams in a division, the best defenses in a division and so on. Most likely I'll throw the teams in a bucket, shake it awhile and the first six teams out go in the Atlantic Division. High tech, this is not...fair, maybe. My intent here is to reduce all but owner parity so the owners skills shine. I know there's nothing I can do about "normalization". Should make for an interesting league though!

The player searches for the 80's draft are incredible, I love what I'm seeing. I was alittle worried about draft depth until I did some searches, the draft is plenty deep. By going to an "unlimited salery cap" it really gives coaching choices wrt multiple setup's & rotations. Fatigue should be a non-issue. I have some realistic draft rosters that I can't believe how good they are. You may have to move out of yor comfort zone alittle bit but I think this league will give us fantastic competetion and a great deal of fun. Thanks for coming!

The idea is to reduce the pool, so we don't just use just the top 5%. This way we use around the top 25%, which is somewhat more difficult. This will hopefully reduce parity so the league is alittle less of a coin toss.

Here's an idea, we play 4 leagues (70'-79', 80'-89', 90'-99' & 00'-present) then top 24 owners, based on a points system, get together for the overall championship. The championship will use players from 51'-69'. In the overall championship everyone throws in a $5 GC, winner takes ALL! Just thinking out loud, let's fill this thing and get it going.

How about a double draft league? 12 owners per conference and 2 drafts going at the same time for the just the 80"s players. As an owner you pick twice as frequently and the teams are better.

The players are not exclusive between the conferences. The players are exclusive within each conference and for each draft. It worked once before for a $52 Million draft league and it never ran again. For a more limited player pool it would work pretty well I think. Any thoughts?